Past events

The genotype-to-phenotype architecture (GPA), defined by complex interactions such as pleiotropy, epistasis, and regulatory control together with all the plasticity associated to these processes are fundamental yet often overlooked drivers of biodiversity dynamics.

This seminar is supported by the Centre for Biodiversity Analysis.

This seminar will outline a predictive modelling research theme and highlight recent examples integrating physiology, phenotyping and genetics to evaluate potential interventions and guide crop adaptation.

Using poecilid fishes as models, this talk will outline long term research investigating the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on the behaviour of exposed organisms and their weighty ecological and evolutionary consequences

Sphingolipids constitute an important class of lipids found in all eukaryotes. In addition to their essential structural roles in cellular membranes, sphingolipids act as signalling molecules and regulate a wide range of cellular processes.

Australia’s alpine regions are known for their rapidly changing weather, cold, snowy winters, clear running streams and wonderfully unique biodiversity. However, things won’t be this way forever, with future climates predicted to challenge plant communities through warmer soils, more frequent droughts and heatwaves, and potentially greater exposure to frost as snow cover declines.

Seabirds spend much of their lives moving through vast and dynamic marine environments, making movement ecology a powerful framework through which to understand how animals respond to environmental change.

RSB Director's Seminar, in collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, featuring Professor Andreas Wagner, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Global climatic warming is having profound effects on species’ ecology and acts as a major driver of phenotypic change, but predicting how species will change in their morphology, behaviour and physiology is difficult. 

My thesis provides insights into how parrots respond to rapidly changing environments, with implications for conservation and urban planning.